pastinum

Updated: June 27, 2025

REPASTINATIONES: 'repeated hoeings'. The pastinum was a kind of pitchfork, used for turning over the ground round about the vines, particularly when the young plants were being put in. MULTO TERRA FECUNDIOR: see n. on 3 parum ... auctoritatis. IN EO LIBRO: see Introd.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes